http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Sat, 18 May 2013 23:59:18 PDT Sat, 18 May 2013 23:59:18 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=384148 This site contains information about the problems related to the release of the mentally ill from correctional facilities into our communities. Included on this site are links to the actual program, videos containing updates, discussion boards, information about a model facility that one community is using to combat the cycle of release/re-arrest, along with additional readings on this issue. According to the authors of this site, 2/3 of the mentally ill who are released from our jails and prisons will be re-arrested within 18 months. This program is related to and follows some of the mentally ill offenders who were interviewed for the previous program produced by Frontline, "The New Asylums.״ http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=86068 This site presents comprehensive information regarding the death penalty, indiviudal state laws concerning the death penalty, an execution database, tools to review different aspects of the death penalty, resources, issues surrounding, and facts about the death penalty. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=84655 This site, sponsored by the National Criminal Justice Reference Service, provides information about Family Violence with relevant links to information. Specific topics, after a brief summary of the issue include: Facts & Figures, Legislation, Publications, Programs, Training, Grants, and Related Resources including, Child Abuse , Domestic Violence, Elder Abuse, Family Violence, Federal issues, and International issues. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=439725 Sample assignment/discussionClick on http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/view/PBS Frontline website. Choose and view one video. Do not forget to share with your classmates which video you chose and write a reaction based on the key questions below. Once you log onto the website, scroll down to view all the topics. Key questions to respond to after viewing and or reading the story text are: Identify the story and source. How would sociologists interpret the story? What are the sociological issues discussed in the story? What are the theoretical perspectives used in the story? What are your strategies for action: Creative solution to the problem? What did you learn from listening or reading the story? Feel free to add additional comments http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=86067 This 74 page report details comprehensive gang threat assessment information collected from throughout the United States for the 2005 calendar year by the NAGIA. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=86282 Problem-Oriented Policing Guides for Police Problem-Specific Series (no 36) http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=515968 Gangs are morphing, multiplying, and migrating—entrenching themselves not just in our inner cites but increasingly in our ever-sprawling suburbs and wide-open rural spaces. In some communities, they are responsible for as much as a staggering 80 percent of all crimes. They are selling drugs to your kids, shooting up your neighborhoods, invading your homes, robbing your banks and stores, stealing your identities and money, and sowing plenty of fear and violence along the way.The 2009 edition of the National Gang Threat Assessment is based on law enforcement’s collective intelligence—the product specifically of the National Gang Intelligence Center, the National Drug Intelligence Center, and a host of other local, state, and federal agencies. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=439712 Sound Portraits' radio documentaries (broadcast on NPR's All Things Considered and Weekend Edition) are audio profiles of men and women surviving in the margins. Told with care and dignity, the work depicts the lives of Americans living in communities often neglected or misunderstood. Sound Portraits frequently collaborates with people living in these hard-to-access corners of America, giving them tape recorders and microphones and helping them tell their own stories.Sound Portraits is known not just for its cutting-edge radio documentaries but also for its innovative approaches to disseminating ideas, sparking discussion, and broadening the national debate on such issues as poverty, juvenile justice, prison, and race. After broadcast, their documentaries live on through extensive education outreach in classrooms across the country. In 1997, Sound Portraits was awarded funding from the MacArthur Foundation to bring the documentary Ghetto Life 101 into thousands of classrooms in collaboration with the national education outreach organization Facing History and Ourselves. This was just the beginning of an effort to make Sound Portraits work available as a learning tool, a mission that has grown with the company.Sample assignment:Read one of the documentary projects series and write a comprehensive analysis on the story using sociological perspectives. These are very interesting and captivating series.Key Questions to Consider:•· Identify the story and source.•· How would sociologists interpret the story?•· Identify the sociological issues discussed in the story?•· Identify the theoretical perspectives used in the story?•· What are your strategies for action: Creative solution to the problem?•· What did you learn from listening or reading the story?•· Feel free to add additional remarks. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=87180 This is a very rich site that contains training material for supervision of sex offenders. An Overview is provided, including Front Page Matter, Introduction, User's Guide, Acknowledgements, and an Evaluation Form. Users have a choice of Long, Medium and Short forms, for different time periods. The Long Version has 5 sections, each of which includes: an Outline, Lecture Content and Teaching Notes, Slide Show Presentations in PDF and Powerpoint, and Participant Material. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=629588 This resource is described as "An intimate journey across the violent landscape of our cities through the eyes of those fighting to sow peace and security." The video is almost two hours long and is available in a graphic version as well as a broadcast version. There are also individual interviews with the participants as well as links to other videos and articles. In a review of the film Slate’s Dana Stevens called it “the most necessary film of the year”. "This is also one of the most engaging films you’ll see this year, full of vibrant, complex real-life characters whose troubles and joys will stay with you long after the movie’s done.”